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My friend and I just hooked up my new Pioneer flip out touch screen DVD head unit last night, and he did most of it since he had some training and has done many others. After we finished and put it all back together we learned it doesn't work right. When you go above around six on the volume it just gets a bunch of static and you can't here, it does this on all of the input settings. Any ideas?

My friend and I just hooked up my new Pioneer flip out touch screen DVD head unit last night, and he did most of it since he had some training and has done many others. After we finished and put it all back together we learned it doesn't work right. When you go above around six on the volume it just gets a bunch of static and you can't here, it does this on all of the input settings. Any ideas?

Did you use a wiring harness which is correct for the truck and deck, or did you just splice into everything?

Yes I used a wiring harness that is specific to my truck but the truck itself has no ground wire so we have to find somewhere else to put the one from the head unit and aren't getting any good places there's not much metal in the dash either.

Yes I used a wiring harness that is specific to my truck but the truck itself has no ground wire so we have to find somewhere else to put the one from the head unit and aren't getting any good places there's not much metal in the dash either.

Bad ground would do this, easily. Run a new ground out into the engine bay through a gromet and find a place on the frame to ground it too. You might also find a common grounding area that other things are grounded to.

Or run one down under your carpet and ground it using one of the bolts on the seats. Just use good washers and have the connector between them or something.

What do you mean there isn't much metal in the dash? The entire dash is held in place by a metal frame. All you have to do is tie into any of the screws that hold the panels to the metal frame. Maybe all you need is a little sand paper to clean the metal to ground it to. After years of accumulation of grime, the metal contact may not be very conductive. You are obviously getting ground or the unit would not work.

Yeah there was the metal in there but he would have to drill into it and couldn't get his drill in there so he just ran it through the dash and finally used an area under the steering column that had a place with screw to metal to hold it.